The Father's Opinion Should Matter

According to guttmacher.org, approximately one third of all teen pregnancies end in abortion. But how many of these abortions were agreed upon by both parents in the relationship? I find this data very alarming seeing as how the child of a non-married teen couple is just as much the father's as the baby is the mother's.

Regardless of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion and gave women the right to choose whether or not she keeps the baby, I believe the father's opinion should matter. If the mother did not wish to take care of her child and the father did not want her to have an abortion, she could give up full custody to the father.

Since a woman bears the child she has the right whether or not to keep the child, but it takes a male to get her pregnant. Although I do not think the male should have a say if the girl was raped, he should if the relationship was consensual. Aside form my own personal opinion on abortion, the mother should consider the father's opinion, and it should be a law that both parents agree before making such a life changing decision.